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title: Idle Session Timeout
slug: kronpam-reference-guide-3-7-0/idle-session-timeout
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createdAt: 2025-05-30T08:57:53.361Z
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In SSH connections, if the user remains idle for a while, the session is automatically terminated. This period can be changed by the system administrator. For this, the following steps should be followed.

1. Login to Kron PAM intance CLI with pamuser
2. Open /pam/ssh/conf/nsso.properties file with text editor
3. Set sc.idlesession.timeout parameter in seconds.
4. Save and exit